Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder,[…]

When I unsheathe the blade, it makes such a satisfying sound that I do it again.

Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.

In the Biology Teachers'Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is amight be", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow …